{"id":12967,"date":"2012-05-21T11:37:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T15:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=12967"},"modified":"2012-05-21T11:37:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T15:37:12","slug":"positive-only-review-services-come-under-scrutiny-in-main-stream-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/21\/positive-only-review-services-come-under-scrutiny-in-main-stream-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Positive Only Review Services Come Under Scrutiny in Main Stream Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aimmktg.com\">Aim Marketing<\/a> in Denver pointed out an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedenverchannel.com\/news\/31087210\/detail.html\">article<\/a> and an investigative news report that highlights a positive review only service posting positive reviews on behalf of their client&#8217;s customers . Essentially the Denver based service surveyed the clients post sale for a number of Denver businesses and posted 4 star and higher reviews to Google. The story covers the legality of the process very superficially and doesn&#8217;t note at all that the practice violates Google&#8217;s TOC. They did note that the businesses subscribing to the service were not aware that negative reviews were not being posted (I am not sure I believe that). <\/p>\n<p>The story does not cover any new territory but it is interesting in that the problem of <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/30\/review-services-do-positive-only-reviews-have-a-place\/\">positive only review services <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/23\/the-review-economy-what-is-a-positive-review-worth-3-22\/\">fake reviews from online marketplaces<\/a> has risen to the level of visibility that it is being covered by the investigative news world of local television. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce from Aim Marketing in Denver pointed out an article and an investigative news report that highlights a positive review only service posting positive reviews on behalf of their client&#8217;s customers . Essentially the Denver based service surveyed the clients post sale for a number of Denver businesses and posted 4 star and higher reviews &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12968,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12967\/revisions\/12968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}